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Language Comprehension Literacy Knowledge
Literacy knowledge refers to how language and text are organized to communicate. “We have long known that students benefit from instruction in common structures and elements…
Educational Fads
Teaching is, by its very nature, experimental. We teachers are just as susceptible to snake-oil sales pitches, fads, and cultural pressures as any professionals. Educational fads…
How Not to Teach Context Clues
Most teachers are familiar with and teach context clues as an important reading strategy to define unknown words; however, fewer teachers are familiar with the debate…
Twelve Tips to Teach the Reading-Writing Connection
Educators often talk about the reading-writing connection. Teaching reading and writing strategies concurrently allows teachers to “kill two birds with one stone.” The following twelve techniques…
Problems with the KWL Reading Strategy
Response journals, such as the KWL reading strategy, are good note-taking vehicles and serve nicely to hold students accountable for what they read, but internal monitoring…